Clock – Award-winning Web design, on-line marketing, and one of the top-100 digital media agencies in the UK.

The Node Summit brings together business leaders and technology experts to discuss Node.js’ transformative role in the future of computing. So we’re going to soak up all we can from the best talent on the planet before bringing our juicy new knowledge back here to the UK.

And ontop of this we’ll also be attending the live recording of NodeUp for the next podcast. We’re sponsors of the event, so if you are around the drinks are on us!

Last year we developed Sun Perks, one of Britain’s largest consumer facing Node.js implementations for News International. This was followed shortly by another ground breaking service, the Eat Out Dining Card for The Times newspaper. Both leveraged Node.js, MongoDB and a whole stack of exciting technology.

Our tech team try to contribute as much as possible to key Node.js projects including Connect, should.js and nodemailer as well as maintaining a few of our own, gzippo (a middle-ware developed to perform gzip compression of static assets), Versionator (Cache busting static asset versioning), Piton and control.js. We're also heavily involved in the London developer scene and often speak at events evangelising Node.js. Yup, we’re just that cool.

If you’re around San Francisco next week and want to grab a coffee with some of our tech team drop us a tweet over @clock

California here we come!

Why didn't the bicycle play rugby? It was two tyred! Now, although this won’t help attract a fresh, younger crowd our new branding will. We got trigger happy with our mouses and before you can kick a try, we had some awesome new design for the new campaign.

And to go with it, we also rustled up a tidy CMS, giving the Sarrie boys a hassle free way to edit and update their microsite. Now that's what you call a touch-down.

Check out our work over at SaracensAtWembley.com

Punch in who you're looking for and give the tombola a whirl. An amazingly clever Amazon API then picks the ideal gift for each person, with 100% of all the referral fees being donated to the Prince's Trust Charity.

After all, Christmas is the time of year for giving – and giving back, we were founded from a loan from The Prince’s Trust over 15 years ago, so it's a cause close to our hearts.

It took us just over two weeks to develop the app, and we did it all by hand with fancy stuff like HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.

So head over SecretSanta.me, try your luck on the tombola and give something back this Christmas...Ho! Ho! Ho!

Merry Christmas!

Pioneering the leisure sector firmly in a digital direction is Yates's, with the launch of the first phase of their new mobile app that we've just made for them.

The app takes the functionality of the website and gracefully optimises it for a smooth and hassle-free HTML5 mobile experience. This new approach illustrates the brand efforts to continue its leading position in digital over competitors by developing an advanced and multi-phased digital strategy over the next 12 months.

The new app available on Android, iOS and the web enables users to a search for nearby Yates’s pubs, sign-up for offers, browse through the pubs facilities, flick through the food and drinks menus, set your local branch as your start-up screen and even book events.

And Yates’s are just one of a number of brands that are now pursuing a web-based strategy for mobile platform. This new approach was made possible by the advancement of front-end development tools; allowing developers to match the functionality and experience of a native mobile applications.

So next time your off t’pub, you know what app you need...

Download it here for:

iPhone

Android

After the huge success of the Sun Perks and MyTimes+ loyalty services, Clock worked fervently with The Times to offer more value to their consumers than ever before.

The ‘Eat Out’ card gives members access to jaw-dropping discounts at more than 700 restaurants across the UK. From two main meals for the price of one, 50% off the food bill and 25% off the total bill, members will be utterly spoilt rotten! And best of all, the card is accepted at some top notch places from high street favourites such as Prezzo and Loch Fyne to high-end establishments including The Grill at The Dorchester in London, JSW in Hampshire and La Garrigue in Edinburgh.

Where can I sign-up? Well hold your horses as initially it will be an exclusive benefit for Times and Sunday Times subscribers with a view to be rolled out as a standalone product in early 2012.

And if what’s on the surface doesn’t tickle your taste buds then maybe what’s underneath the bonnet will. Keeping agile, we're always striving to push tech forward and thus the Eat Out site has been built with a bleeding-edge technology barely a year old called Node.js. Using Node enables far more utilisation of servers and hardware than ever before, cutting server down-time and boosting response rates. Clever stuff.

The (lucky) Times and Sunday Times subscribers can make the most of Eat Out by heading over to MyTimes+

Bon Appétit!